The Story of Bliss Belly Kitchen
School of Yoga and Cooking for Children
Meet the founder
Meet Chef Neelam
Hello there!
I'm so glad you’re here. I know as a parent you’re stretched thin, but that you also care deeply about helping your kids be their happiest selves.
A little about me.… I have been studying Ayurveda, meditation, yoga, and vegetarian cooking for the past 23 years. As a chef, I catered for thousands, utilizing my signature approach—the Yoga of Cooking—which specializes in healthy, light, delicious, nutritious, and satisfying cuisine.
In 2016, I realized that my passion was to teach children a mindful approach to cooking, while simultaneously taking care of the planet—and Green Kids Cooking Club was born!
Since then, thousands of children have graduated from Bliss Belly Kitchen, a 30-hour training where children master basic safe knife skills, learn to make five farm-to-table family-style meals, and receive a daily yoga, breathing, and meditation practice.
I’m so excited to have you in our community, and I am committed to supporting you and your family however I can to grow and nurture in love and community with the planet.
Wishing you a happy mind and a healthy belly,
Chef Neelam, Founder
The Bliss Belly Kitchen Approach:
Bliss Belly Kitchen uses only the best ingredients to deliver a nourishing, caring, delicious meal.
A happy mind starts with a healthy belly. Our gut is our second brain, and healthy digestion links to happiness and a healthy state of mind. Chef Neelam loves to empower and teach people the basics of Ayurveda so they can nourish their bodies and keep their minds healthy, happy, and fulfilled.
Whether it’s a cooking class or a wellness team-builder, Chef Neelam incorporates a lifelong passion for meditation, yoga, and Ayurveda into her cooking.
Healthy. Local. Organic. Ayurvedic. Vegetarian. Vegan. Refined-Sugar Free.
Five ways Bliss Belly Kitchen is taking care of Mother Nature!
Our classes utilize locally sourced ingredients, fresh from farmers. We help you reduce your carbon footprint, respect life, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Our cooking is vegetarian, with lots of plant-based proteins. You learn to make healthy, crave-worthy food, with tastes so delicious you'll want to eat again and again.
We teach breathing, yoga, and meditation at the beginning of each session. These practices empower you to reconnect to your own source of "bliss" within. We are then able to connect to Mother Nature with reverence.
We teach children to cook based on these principles, inculcating lifelong habits of respect and reverence to Mother Earth. The ripple effect is that everyone in the family can develop environmentally friendly cooking habits.
Our classes are based upon Ayurvedic culinary principals, which acknowledge the connection between the body, mind, and gut health. We help your child reconnect with their mind and body and to be more conscious humans.
For all of these reasons, we are excited to offer our camps to you!